Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

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Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) ISBN  026219502X Release Date  01 April 2004 Category  Robotics Tags  robot,   robotics,   agent,   robotic,   robots,   mobile,   agents,   autonomous,   multy agents,   mobile robot,   autonomous robots,   multi agent,   robo,   026219502x,   robo waiter,   "mobile robots",   auto,   bots,   robotics project,   mobile agent,   robot control,   intelligent agent,   autonomous mobile robots,   search robot,   probabilistic robotics,   This book @Amazon  View Tools Google Search Web flazx.com

Description Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots offers students and other interested readers an overview of the technology of mobility -- the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks -- including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It discusses all facets of mobile robotics, including hardware design, wheel design, kinematics analysis, sensors and perception, localization, mapping, and robot control architectures. The design of any successful robot involves the integration of many different disciplines, among them kinematics, signal analysis, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. Reflecting this, the book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter covers a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. The first two chapters explore low-level locomotory ability, examining robots' wheels and legs and the principles of kinematics. This is followed by an in-depth view of perception, including descriptions of many "off-the-shelf" sensors and an analysis of the interpretation of sensed data. The final two chapters consider the higher-level challenges of localization and cognition, discussing successful localization strategies, autonomous mapping, and navigation competence. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook for coursework or a working tool for beginners in the field. Other books on Robotics Extreme NXT: Extending the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to the Next Level (Technology in Action) Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications: Artificial Muscles and Sensors LEGO Mindstorms NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action) Hacking Roomba: ExtremeTech Advances in Robot Control: From Everyday Physics to Human-Like Movements Visual Perception and Robotic Manipulation: 3D Object Recognition, Tracking and Hand-Eye Coordination (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 5th International Conference (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Field and Service Robotics: Recent Advances in Research and Applications (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems Underwater Robots: Motion and Force Control of Vehicle-Manipulator Systems (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Evolutionary Robotics: From Algorithms to Implementations (World Scientific Series in Robotics and Intelligent Systems) Environment Learning for Indoor Mobile Robots: A Stochastic State Estimation Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Map Building (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control (Studies in Computational Intelligence) European Robotics Symposium 2006 (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Climbing and Walking Robots : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2005)